(From left to right) Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton, Congressman Raul Ruiz, Senator Alex Padilla, California Natural Resources Agency Secretary Wade Crowfoot, Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, and Colorado River Board of California Chair JB Hamby, who also is vice president of the Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors, all join to break ground on an expansion of the state’s Species Conservation Habitat project at the Salton Sea during a ceremony held Oct. 15 in the Imperial Valley.

On a warm October mid-morning in the Imperial Valley, leaders from several Southern California water agencies, tribes, environmental organizations, and state and federal agencies, along with congressional and legislative representatives, gathered at the southeast corner of the Salton Sea. They were at the site of the state’s largest restoration project for a groundbreaking that will make the project even larger. The ceremony was a celebration of not just a critical expansion to a

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